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RSVP mandatory.Complimentary popcorn and iced tea.

Doors open at 7pm. Screening starts at 7.30pm

This fall, France Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX) is partnering with Tin Flats for three exhibitions and a series of weekly screenings presented in the parking lot of Tin Flats, which will be transformed into a drive-in movie theater.

Discovering the city of LA takes long hours of driving. Many writers compared the windshield of a car to a screen. All surroundings are seen through this lens. It seems like a very natural phenomenon and is formative in our experiences of Los Angeles and California. This is an important point of view in the process of discovering the city, in a very cinematographic way.

During the 10 weeks of the program developed by FLAX at Tin Flats, a series of screenings will take place in the parking lot which will be transformed into a drive-in. Each week, an artist is invited to choose one of his/her films and a film of his/her choice - a feature, a documentary, another artist’s video - echoing his/her work. From influence to dissonance, these double features allow us to continue the discussions started in the exhibition space. Each program will be screened twice, on Mondays and Tuesdays.

On October 22nd and 23rd, we will present Clément Cogitore, The Evil Eye, 2018 and Paul Morrissey, Trash, 1970

The Evil Eye is made up of stock footage from image libraries (Getty, Shutterstock…) shot for advertising purposes. The clipped and chaotic montage film shows a range of humanity – mainly female – going about various activities before a green screen background or in different locations throughout the world, lyrically and suggestively back-lit against a backdrop of continual commercial bliss. A woman’s voice guides the strange saga in the form of a letter addressed to an absent beloved. The voice is captive in a world where matter has disappeared, passing from fear to melancholy to incantation to fury. This video will be presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in the fall for the Duchamp Prize exhibition.

“The story of Joe [Dallesandro] and his lover-protector, Holly [Woodlawn], who is something to behold, a comic book Mother Courage who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. Joe and Holly try to make a go of things in their Lower East Side basement, from which Holly goes forth from time to time to cruise the Fillmore East and to scavenge garbage cans, while Joe’s journeys are in search of real junk… Trash is true-blue movie-making, funny and vivid. Written and directed by Paul Morrissey, “presented” by Andy Warhol.” Vincent Canby, The New York Times.